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You Only Live Twice
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You Only Live Twice is a 1967 action, spy, and adventure film directed by Lewis Gilbert. The screenplay was written by Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming, based on the work of the same name. The cast includes Sean Connery, Mie Hama, Donald Pleasence, and Akiko Wakabayashi. Production was handled by Eon Productions and United Artists, with Harry Saltzman serving as a producer. Ken Adam was the production designer, while John Barry and Leslie Bricusse composed the music. The film was shot in The Bahamas, Gibraltar, Japan, and Spain, with narrative locations including British Hong Kong, Japan, Northern Norway, and Tokyo.
The movie has a runtime of 117 minutes and was released in 1967. It originated from the United Kingdom and the United States, with English as the original language. The film was distributed by Netflix. Its main subjects include aviation, terrorism, and ninja. On IMDb, the film holds a rating of 6.8 based on 127,695 votes, while TMDb lists a vote average of 6.584 from 2,475 votes. The production had a budget of 9,500,000 and generated revenue of 111,600,000.
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6.6A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
Cast
- Sean Connery as James Bond
- Akiko Wakabayashi as Aki
- Mie Hama as Kissy Suzuki
- Tetsuro Tamba as Tiger Tanaka
- Teru Shimada as Mr. Osato
- Karin Dor as Helga Brandt
Themes
- island
- japan
- assassin
- london, england
- helicopter
- assassination
- based on novel or book
- nasa
- england
- funeral
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- thriller film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- You Only Live Twice
- Main subject
- ninja
- Director
- Lewis Gilbert
- Screenwriter
- Ian Fleming
- Cast member
- Peter Maivia
- Composer
- Leslie Bricusse
- Producer
- Harry Saltzman
- Production company
- United Artists
- Cinematographer
- Freddie Young
- Narrative location
- Washington, D.C.
- Filming location
- Japan
- Duration
- 117
- FilmAffinity ID
- 618194
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Little Nellie.jpg
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- Commons category
- You Only Live Twice (film)
- publication date
- 1967-00-00
- film editor
- Peter R. Hunt
- title
- You Only Live Twice
- distributed by
- Netflix
- production designer
- Ken Adam
- after a work by
- Ian Fleming
- theme music
- You Only Live Twice
- different from
- On ne meurt que deux fois
- review score
- 6.8/10
- capital cost
- 9500000
- box office
- 43084787
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Encyclopedic overview
You Only Live Twice is a 1967 spy film and the fifth film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and was loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel You Only Live Twice. It is the first of three Bond films to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, and is the first Bond film to discard most of Fleming's plot, using only a few characters and locations from the book as the background for an entirely new story.
You Only Live Twice stars Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, who is dispatched to Japan after American and Soviet spacecraft vanish mysteriously, each nation blaming the other amidst the Cold War. Bond travels to a remote island to find the perpetrators, and comes face-to-face with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE, an organisation that is working for the government of an unnamed Asian power, implied to be China, to provoke war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Although the character Blofeld played a role in previous films, You Only Live Twice is the first film to show his face.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “You Only Live Twice” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.